4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Keep You Alive

cutting into a pine tree

It never ceases to amaze me just how survival uses you can glean from a single tree.

Specifically, a pine tree can keep you alive for days in the wilderness. When the collapse happens, and you find yourself without food or shelter, a pine tree is your ticket to survival. Within a single pine tree, there is a never ending flow of natural resources you can utilize.

Plus, if we're honest, if you're stuck out in the wilderness without a bug out bag and there's no telling how long you're going to be on your own, coming across a pine tree and using it for food and more can keep you alive.

It turns out a pine tree's bark is edible, and you can use the needles, sticky sap and almost every other part of the tree for something. If you're not sure how to identify a pine tree now, make sure you find one in the future, and you'll be fully prepared for SHTF.

If you want, you may consider planting some pine trees at your cabin so you can practice using its resources on a daily basis.

On the next page, continue to discover why a pine tree can keep you alive and not to mention help you come up with a kick ass shelter! When the collapse takes place don't panic — find a pine tree! 

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29 Comments

  1. Macom Cline said:

    Jamie Wilson this is one of the knives I was telling your about.

  2. Macom Cline said:

    They have 2 versions, stainless steel and carbon steel…and 2 different sizes. It’s called primitive bush knife or something like that. Don’t know what exactly I’d use it for o just like it. I’ve always had a thing for knives. I think that’s going to be my new thing…collecting knives.

  3. Matt Saraceno said:

    Thank you California… for $15 hr. min. wage! Literally passing by Hillary’s $12 hr. proposal, even as she is still interviewing for the job of president! How embarrassing, to have the most important state dictate her next flip flop to her. Bernie has always wanted $15…

    Hillary, “progressive” for 8 months. Bernie, progressive for 50 years… Do you really know the candidates?? Seriously now… maybe why you never hear Bernie saying he “needed to evolve” with “learning moments” yuh think?? Bernie has foresight and good judgment in the beginning, when it matters. Hillary blows BEHIND the social / political winds. She then apologizes later to make it all better. She is a centrist with bad judgment. Nothing more. We expect the leader of the free world to have Bernie’s judgment and character.

    Hillary voters are political simpletons who like bright/shiny things: “first woman president…. we don’t know or care about her mistakes, or about our own lives really”. You need to start caring.

    Hillary mistakes: TPP, Iraq, Libya, Patriot act, Afghanistan, DOMA/Gay rights, Syria, Keystone pipeline, War on drugs, Carbon Tax, No Child left behind, Bank Bailouts, Campaign finance/citizens united (has pacs and superpacs now!), NAFTA (said it was a bad idea), Crime Bill (apologized for ‘superpredator’ gaffe, crack-cocaine sentencing disparity), welfare reform bill (apologized for), Banking reform (wants to make it more expensive for traditional banks to be big, shadow banking reform only), Wall street reform (has nothing here yet, a future flip flop), death penalty (still confused on this one and will come to Bernie’s stance soon), fracking (also still confused, will move to Bernie’s stance), Immigration (voted to kill the bill after backing it initially)….. regarding the TPP, she will again be for it once elected. Why? Corporations wrote and enforce the TPP terms. Corporations write her platform…. Compare. Decide. Vote.

  4. Roland Amouzou said:

    Try to use that when you are suicidal then someone else will be able to finish you up with it.

  5. Hazel Curry said:

    My mom and I traveled to see my grandmother when I was a teenager. My mom had a kidney infection at the time and would not eat tomatoes at lunch because she thought they would aggravate the situation. My grandmother gave her pine tar she had gathered from her trees and within 24 hours there was no more infection per her doctor.

  6. Aaron Guy said:

    What the$#%&!@*, what does this have to do with Flanders or billary

  7. Ken Fichtner said:

    If you like the taste of turpentine yeah, pine forests suck, bark, porcupines, only good thing is pine tea for its vitamin C.

  8. Bryan Smith said:

    Better medicines and remedies in the old days, everyone should be pining for the old days !!!

  9. Bryan Smith said:

    Yes it’s edible and doesn’t bite, but be careful of that bark !!!

  10. Roland Amouzou said:

    What kind of private company is successful on a larger scale with such a mindset?

  11. David Freeman said:

    One last bit of info. Old pine stumps are extremely flammable. In the South farmers sell them to Hercules who extracts the concentrated nitrates to make explosives. Shave some strips off an old stump and keep them handy. The center of the stump, a football size stone hard lump will start hundreds of fires, but don’t do what I did one cold winter morning. I couldn’t scrape anymore off the lump so I put the nitrate rich football into the fireplace at my beach house. A few minutes I had a chimney fire that looked like an upside down Saturn 5 rocket.

  12. Scott W said:

    Another bit of info, maybe they should be able to identify what a pine tree is before they post pics of spruce trees.

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